Senior Software Engineer

Ping Identity•Austin, TX

About The Position

Ping Identity is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Platform Engineering team. This role focuses on building Ping's identity for AI offerings, securing and governing AI agents. The ideal candidate will have strong software development experience, sound technical judgment, creative problem-solving skills, and a passion for research, innovation, and experimentation. They will contribute to features that span products, services, APIs, models, and user experiences, utilizing AI tooling to accelerate discovery and delivery. This is an opportunity to contribute to features that help customers identify, secure, and govern AI agents.

Requirements

Ability to design, build, test, and operate production services using technologies such as Java, JavaScript, Google Cloud, Docker, and Kubernetes, together with the desire to broaden your expertise
Ability to use AI engineering tools to accelerate research, code understanding, prototyping, implementation, and documentation while applying sound engineering judgment
Experience building production services, distributed systems, or shared platform capabilities
Experience designing and implementing APIs, RESTful services, integration contracts, and data or domain models
Experience turning requirements and ambiguous problems into designs, prototypes, and production-ready solutions
Experience with authentication, authorisation, and identity management
Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly, collaborate across teams and time zones, and support other engineers through feedback and knowledge sharing

Nice To Haves

Experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, token exchange, policy systems, delegated administration, or identity data modelling
Experience with AI agent identity and non-human identity
Familiarity with MCP, agent skills, and other agent integration concepts
Experience working across multiple codebases, teams, or product areas to ship cohesive outcomes
Experience with distributed systems at scale
Experience working as part of an international team
Experience contributing to technical designs and proof of concept work

Responsibilities

Deliver IAM (Identity & Access Management) capabilities across the Ping platform encompassing the whole stack from infrastructure and databases through to UI experiences
Contribute to the design and implementation of APIs, models, workflows, orchestration surfaces, and services
Research and prototype solutions in emerging areas, working with senior technical leaders and product teams to turn validated ideas into product features
Work closely with product management, UX, and engineering teams across Ping to refine features and designs to deliver elegant, usable, and scalable outcomes for customers
Participate in development life cycle activities such as design, coding, testing, rollout, and production support
Use modern AI tooling such as Claude Code as part of day-to-day engineering work to accelerate research, code understanding, prototyping, implementation, and documentation while maintaining strong engineering judgment
Communicate clearly, share knowledge, and support other engineers through design discussions, code reviews, and delivery
Thrive in a rapidly changing environment, continuously adapting to evolving customer needs, technology trends, and new ways of working